page_title: University of Massachusetts
section_title: Massachusetts Medical School
hierarchical_section_title: University of Massachusetts / Campuses / Massachusetts Medical School
caption_attribution_description: University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA; Aaron Lazare Medical Research Building, front.
context_page_description: The University of Massachusetts is the five-campus public university system and the only public research system in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The university system includes five campuses, and a satellite campus, with system administration in Boston and Shrewsbury. The system is accredited by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges and across its campuses enrolls 73,000 students.
context_section_description: The University of Massachusetts Worcester, also known as UMass Medical School, is one of the fastest growing academic health science centers in the country and is home to the School of Medicine (SOM) — the Commonwealth's only public medical school — the Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences (GSBS), the Graduate School of Nursing (GSN), and a research enterprise that attracts more than $200 million in external funding annually.
  Located in the heart of Central Massachusetts on a 63-acre (250,000 m²) campus it shares with clinical partner UMass Memorial Health Care, the region's premier health care delivery system and largest employer, UMass Medical consistently ranks among the top ten percent in the U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of best medical schools.
  The work of UMass Medical researcher and 2006 Nobel Prize winner Craig Mello, an investigator of the prestigious Howard Hughes Medical Institute, toward the discovery of RNA interference has launched a promising new field of research. The school is also the home of the Albert Sherman Center, an interdisciplinary, research and education facility that fosters collaboration among scientists and innovation across disciplines. Michael F. Collins is the chancellor of the UMass Medical School campus.
caption: The Lazare Research Building
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